[SP] White Room (reMiX by josepezdj)
Hey all! I haven't got much time to reply to each comment in detail right now, I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks for all comments 
I've just uploaded version 1.3 where I prevented "being able to stay in the funnel near the final panel to keep yourself there waiting" 
(Toncica showed me a video in which he did that).
Everyone, please play that latest version 
@HMW:
NOTE: Toncica posted a video in the map's thread some days ago and it was mostly all intended (except part in the funnel) and he decided to remove it by now cause he felt he has some advantage over the rest
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Just use Fraps or OBS (Open Broadcoast Software) ^^
I use OBS. I have yet to find a way to make it not reduce the framerate to 15fps, but otherwise it works very well.
@Jose: Ah, I see. That would be a bit easier.
Other Portal 2 maps: Medusa Glare
Portal 1 maps: Try Anything Twice | Manic Mechanic
Ouch! Sorry... I forgot to introduce a couple of minor changes in v1.3 for the easter egg access (thanks to Shakky) >.<
New v1.3 up (call it 1.3.1 if you wish :p)
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You should teach everyone how to put feng shui in their maps. Seriously, this is amazing.
Just got back from travel and finally got to give this a shot! Awesome intro and environment, and more importantly, a nasty puzzle! Not sure if I made it though your way, Jose... give my demo a view and let me know how i did! 
Also, are you not supposed to be able to portal through the glass hole??
Ohhhhhh, crap. So that was the one small piece I was missing. Nice solution, HeadShot. Some of it was a little more complicated than it needed to be, but you easily solved the problem I was having.
OK, several pending replies
Not very often what i spend much time to solve hard maps, but this map makes fun
Thanks, mate! I'm so glad you keep on trying and the map is satisfying enough to cheer you up!
^^Hehe... well, man, playing! The more you play Portal and squeeze your brain to solve puzzles, the more you can come with this stuff. Mechanics in this map came to mind while playing the original 'White Room', trying "impossible" things here and there... I remember thinking of one interesting mechanic but it wasn't possible because of the entry door position and that's why this door in my map is at a different location
)Thanks, mate! Although you surely got there too easily (I forgot to change a white wall from place down there after a huge modification of the easter egg)... try the latest version
@RogerL: thanks for helping ppl to get through dot 1. I would have thrown just a couple of hints instead of describing the key mechanics (I'm a bit more devil about that :p), but it's ok You are probably the first to figure out the first part! So it's dot 2 the part that were giving you problems, right? I really thought part 2 was slightly easier, and someone already mentioned so some post above. I haven't watched HeadShot solution yet, but I've checked you did I guess you already dedicated many hours to the map, so all left I can say is thank you so much for your time, mate!
What a great remix Jose! I was looking for a place to use the tile with chell on it but there is none. Or did I miss something?
The map looks amazing (as always) but sadly I'm not a fan of the destroyed theme. Not by the looks but it confuses me all the time. It took me ages to find the hole in the broken glass near the button to activate the lightbridge. Anyways awesome map! Kudos to you my friend (and toncica ofc)!
Thanks Marc! I'm so happy that you played it, my friend. I understand your point about destruction, it is always better a clean puzzle where all elements are perfectly defined. That broken glass you mention was much more clear at first, sry, but I wanted to give a reason to the impossibility of shooting a portal through that gap in one of the updates, and I added another plant (I'll make it clearer in next version).
Regarding Chell's tile, hehe, I'm SO glad you ask it, let me tell you:
CHELL'S TILE STORY
And I made a tile tied to a func_physbox in order to make it carryable...
And, the funniest part is now: next day at our office, I asked her about "the little surprise" I introduced in the map for her... and she showed me a picture of the tile and said she liked it much... And then I told her: "ey Vane, wouldn't it be awesome that the tile could fit in any hole or gap that actually appear to be missing a tile, somewhere in the map, to activate something? indeed, due to the drawing and the intro showing the same drawing at the easter egg, it's like the tile is "saying" get me to the easter egg area..." hehe... she laughed saying: "will you ever be done with the map, man!" hahaha... that's why is SO SO funny that you asked about its function, my friend
Yes, that tile will definitely activate something. Obviously at the easter egg, but I haven't mapped it yet. Pending for a future map update
@HWM: Again thank you so much for your nice comments, my friend. You know how I respect your opinion and admire your work! Thanks for the video as well... I hope you keep on trying to finish it!
"Feng shui"? haha... I guess you mean the titles and the "Game saved" thingies? Sure! I was planning of making a whole tutorial about customizing the maps (if I ever have the time to!). If you mean that, let me tell you quick and basically:
"CUSTOM TITLES IN YOUR MAPS"
- In order to achieve the fade in/out effect, you need to create a bunch of frames (different textures) varying their transparency, from completely transparent to fully shown (even though with transparent background). All except the "Game Saved" one was made by Vanessa in PS. The "White Room" one is the most tedious because it's composed by 98 frames >.< and she had to tweak each of them one by one to remove some sort of "ghost images" from the background (long story...). All the rest are only 20 frames. You can save all separate frames in .PNG, .GIF or whatever...
- Once you've got all frames, normally named following a numbered sequence (e.g. "white01.PNG", "white02.PNG" and so on), you need to Import all of them using VTFEdit and save the file under whatever name. You can see how you actually have all those frames inside the same .VTF file by clicking on "Image" tab > "Frame" arrows up/down:
If you hit the 'Play' button you'll see the sequence you created.
- Now the material file. You can opt for making the texture an "Animated texture" or a "Toogle-able texture". This is made by the material proxies. The first is automatic, and I don't really liked that, so I opted for doing the second way and control the sequence:
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"UnlitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "josepezdj/jose_white_room_banner_rmx"
"$translucent" 1
"$ignorez" "1"
"%keywords" "portal2"
"$vertexcolor" 1
"$no_fullbright" 1Proxies
{
ToggleTexture
{
toggleTextureVar $baseTexture
toggleTextureFrameNumVar $frame
toggleTextureShouldWrap 0
}
}
"$frame" "20"}
This works the same as the indicator lights: you toggle amongst the frames stocked in the .VTF by using the env_texturetoggle entity.
Most important parameters are 2: "$translucent" 1 and "$ignorez" "1". First one makes your texture to have a transparent background, and the second makes your texture be rendered always in a first plane
- How do I do the sequence of frames runs to make the fade-in effect? by using a logic_timer that OnTimer makes the env_texturetoggle to IncreaseTextureIndex (it's one of its outputs).
- The fade-out effect is kind of more complex since there isn't a "DecreaseTextureIndex" output (ehmmm... VALVe? >.<). I'm sure I could have taken the time to make a basic script and save entities on this, but I never had the time. So I used a couple of logic_cases (for all the textures except for the "White Room" title, which required 6! due to its 98 frames and the limit of 16 cases of the logic_case entity), a math_counter and 1 logic_timer.
It's so long to explain here the set-ups but I'd suggest you to take a look to this timers example (It already explains the basics of making the frames of a texture go backwards)
- Now you need a func_brush textured nodraw except front face that you'll use your multi-frame texture.
- Next is decide where you want it to appear (I've used 5 ones per "tittle" in this map in order to make the intro scene because I used 4 point_viewcontrols). Normally you would like to appear in front of the player's eyes, right? K, then you should edit the arrival_departure_transition_ents.VMF instance and place your func_brush in front of the player's view. Then use a logic_auto to parent it:
- OnMapSpawn > [brush_name] > SetParent > !player
(it's not recommendable to use the SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset output to the player's eyes because then the tittle will always be moving like the eyes, bouncing up/down, rolling and such )
- Make your brush be disable to activate it whenever you want. And to make the frames run, also set to disable the timer, to activate it whenever you want...
I hope it's more or less explained... but it will be easier an example map I'll do when I've got some time!
To anyone interested: I can pack all custom stuffs, materials, models, instances and the .VMF as a sort of "source" pack to this map when I return from holiday!
@HeadShot: Thanks for the nice comments, man! but, nasty? I'm not sure if you liked it or not if you needed that adjective I can't watch the video right now. I'll let you know as soon as I can watch it
Hmmm.... the map already does that I don't know if HS did himself personally because I didn't watch the video yet, but the map does turn sv_cheats from 1 to 0 three times, every time it saves the progress, becasue I didn't like to see the default "Saving game" HUD animated texture on the left upper corner every time I fired the console command "Save white01", but I wanted to see only mine ...and cheats are required to fire the console command to hide the HUD
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[/spoiler]I was joking about the "Feng Shui", but if you where planning to make a tutorial already, then that's good.